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This year, the amount of M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong has reached 38 billion US dollars, which has triggered a rare bidding war. This year is expected to be the busiest year for M&A transactions involving listed companies in Hong Kong in the past decade, with industries ranging from skin care products to logistics real estate, and the bidding war has also warmed up. It is reported that China Mobile's bid for Hongkong Broadband may face competition from American private equity firm I Squared Capital. Bi Hua, chairman of Fenmei Packaging, is negotiating with Qihao Capital to jointly counter the privatization offer of Shandong Xinjufeng. The data shows that the scale of M&A transactions for listed companies in Hong Kong has reached $38 billion this year, the highest level since 2017, including the merger of Guotai Junan Securities and Haitong Securities, a smaller competitor, to become the largest brokerage firm in China.Musk is going to melt the Statue of Liberty? Musk also responded to the rumors of foreign media. Recently, a screenshot appeared on the American network. The content was that CNN published a report saying that Musk, a well-known American entrepreneur, was going to melt the Statue of Liberty in the United States to make a limited edition electric pickup truck. However, Reuters later denied that the CNN report was forged. A spokesman for CNN also told Reuters that the CNN report in the screenshot was forged, and CNN had never published such a report. At present, Musk himself has responded to this matter in a teasing tone on his social platform X. Musk wrote in three posts: "No, I will melt it 1000% (Statue of Liberty)"; "With a laser eye from space"; "and then cast it again before no one notices";Citigroup slightly lowered South Korea's GDP growth forecast to 1.5% next year. It is expected that the Bank of Korea will cut interest rates next month. Citigroup released a report saying that considering the worse economic sentiment in South Korea this month, it slightly lowered its GDP forecast for this year and next year by 0.1 percentage point to 2.1% and 1.5% respectively. The bank slightly lowered Korea's GDP growth forecast for the last quarter of this year by 0.1 percentage point to rise by 0.3% quarterly, and raised its GDP growth forecast for the first quarter of next year by 0.1 percentage point to rise by 0.6% quarterly. Looking forward to the first quarter of next year, the bank expects South Korea to adopt a combination of expansionary policies, including the Bank of Korea's expected interest rate cut to 2.75% in mid-January, and the government's expected additional budget of 30 trillion won (equivalent to about 1.1% of GDP next year). It is expected that the Bank of Korea will cut interest rates by 25BP each in January, April, July and October next year, and the final interest rate is expected to be 2%.

The main contract of CSI 500 stock index futures (IC) expanded to 1.00% in the day and is now reported at 6104.4 points. The main contract of CSI 500 stock index futures (IC) stood at 6100 points, rising by 0.99% in the day.South Korea's former defense chief Jin Longxian's confidential mobile phone was detained by the police and the Ministry of National Defense. On the 12th local time, it was learned that the South Korean police and the Ministry of National Defense detained the confidential mobile phone of former defense chief Jin Longxian. (CCTV News)The word "Jin" was elected as the Japanese Chinese character of the year in 2024. According to NHK, on the afternoon of December 12, local time, Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, Japan announced the word "Jin" as the Japanese Chinese character of the year in 2024. According to the report, this year's word "gold" has two meanings. One is that athletes such as Japanese Olympic athletes have performed well and issued a shining "golden light"; The second is the political black gold problem in Japanese politics and frequent robberies caused by underground part-time jobs, because the pronunciation of "gold" in Japanese, like the word "shadow", also implies the meaning of "shadow". (China News Network)

SAIC: Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal has been put into production and operation. According to the official WeChat official account news of SAIC, today, Haitong Taicang Automobile Terminal jointly built by SAIC, Shanghai Port Group and Jiangsu Port Group has been put into production and operation, with an annual throughput of 1.3 million vehicles.Chief Economic Adviser of India: The growth rate will be 6.5-7% in FY 2025. The chief economic adviser of India said that maintaining the growth rate is still a top priority. The growth rate will be 6.5-7% in FY 2025.The USD/JPY rose more than 30 points against the Japanese yen in the short term and is now reported at 152.56.